The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-12-15

mtttod, also . resolution for the appoint
msat Of committee on the eleventh cen-
suA The Presidents message was then
read, after which tho House adjourned
WEDNESDAY. Dec TN the Senate .
resolution to ascertain whether any patent
had been issued for tho manufacture OF
sugar from sorghum was adopted. No other
business was transacted The House was
not In session.
THURSDAY, Dec 8-A few department
communications were read in the Senate,
after which IN adjournment was taken to
the 18th In tho Housel few resolutions
were introduced relating 70 amendment Of
the rules, and then the body adjourned 10
the 18th
FROM WASHINGTON
President CLEVELAND on the 9th sent the
following nominations to the Senate: Lucius
Q c. Lamar, Of Mississippi. to be Justice Of
the United States Supreme Court; william
+. Villas, OF Wisconsin, Secretary Of the In
terror; Don n. Dickinson, Of Michigan,
Postmaster General; Charles & Fairchild, Of
New York, Secretary Of the Treasury; George
L Rives, Of New York. Assistant Secretary
Of State; Sigournery Butler. Of Massachu-
setts, Second Comptroller Of the Treasury;
James W. Hyatt, Of Connecticut Treasurer
Of the United Statea
TEE annual report on the 9th OF the Sec-
rctary Of War says that the expenditures Of
the department for the last fiscal year
amounted to $4l, ,3s6, l55. while the esti-
mates for the next fiscal year aggregate
$63. .33S. 71O, against an appropriation for
the current year Of $31, ,O55, ,3O2
Tn annual report Of tho Secretary Of the
Treasury on the 7th states that the receipts
Of the Government for the last fiscal year
were $371, ,4O3, 277, and the expenditures
$116. $50. 426. There was m increase in
the receipts Of $34, 063, $50 over those of
tho proceeding year. and the expenditures
were increased by $25, ,440.O41. The reve-
nues for the present year are estimated at
$363, ,OOO, 900 and the expenditures ut
$3l8, ST. .7S5.
A GENERAL Christian conference under
the auspices Of the Evangelical Alliance OF
the United States commenced at Washing-
ton on the 7th
TEE wool-groweu and wool-deaiers in an
nusl session ut Warrington on the 7th Wig
orously protested against that portion of
the Presidents message which recommends
reduction In the customs duties on wool
TH Chief Of tho Secret Service division
Of the Treasury shows In his annual report
on the 7th that there were 355 persons AZ
rested by the officers Of tho service during
the year for violation Of the laws against
counterfetting, ETC OF this number sew
enty were convicted Countsrfeiters st
present seemed to be devoting their atten-
tton almost exclusively to silver coin
Ar meeting Of the National Republican
Committee in Washington on the hth Chi
cago was selected q the place and the 10th
Of June a. the time for holding the next
National Republican convention
TIE Secretary OF the Navy In his annual
report on tho 9Th says the appropriation for
the department for the last fiscal year
amounted to $l3, 1876, 600, and the balance
available Ut tho end Of that period was
&O34, 500, which has been reduced by De-
cember to $l64, 500 The appropriations
for the current fiscal year amount to
$26, 162, 900, and the estimates for the
year ending Juno 80. 1883. TO $23, ,427, 600
THERE were 23S business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th against 215 tho previous seven
dAya
CHAIRMAN JONES, OF the Republican Ma
tional Committee, issued . call on the 9th
for the Republican National convention, to
be held In Chicago June 10. 1883. to nomi-
nate candidates for President and Vice.
President Of the United States
THE EAST.
TEE New York steamship companies, - q
preoaution against dynamiters passed an
order on the 9Th refusing persons without
passes admission to the piers
THOMAS PARSONS died In New York City
on the 9th, aged ono hundred yearA He
had lived In one house In that city for hfty-
eight yeara
In New York City W. L H. Chalmers,
dealers In linen. failed on the 7th for $780,.
600, and Issac Hayes, wholesale liquor
dealer, failed for $l25. 600
A FIRE In Great Bend, N. T.. destroyed
several Of the best budness houses on the
6th The loss was heavy.
A NEW trial was denied Johann Most, the
New York Anarchist convicted Of incendiaxy
speech, on the 6th, and he was sentenced
to imprisonment In the penitentiary for one
year.
Ar meeting on the Sth OF the National
Committee Of the Union Veteran Legion ct
Pittsburgh, Pa, 1t was voted to hold the
next National meeting at Youngstown, O.,
February % next
The Connecticut Prohibitionists met In
State convention on the Sth ut New Haven
and adopted . platform which declares
that tho AQuor question ID the most impor-
tant political issue OF the day and asserts
tho necessity Of . third National party
Delegates to the National convention were
chosen.
On the 9th the tableware workmen in
nineteen fint-glass factories at Plttsburgh,
Pa, to tho number Of fourteen hundred,
were ordered to strike because the rules and
scale adopted by the manufacturers did not
suit them
TIE steamer Algiers struck and sunk the
schooner Nellie 8 Jernell OF Lewes Del, +,
on the 9th, three Of tho lattsr's crow being
drowned
JOHANN Mosr's case has been appealed to
the New York Supreme Court and tho An
archist was released on the 9th in $5, OOO
bail
WEST AND SOUTH.
THaEE negroes were killed by boiler ex-
plosion ON the 9th ut Hagansville, Ga
TH collapse Of water tower on the 9th
at Thomasville, Ga. killed four mon and
caused serious injury to four otherA
TEE yield Of Ill tho cereals In Ohio was on
the 9th reported much below tho average,
and 1t WAS estimated that tho wheat harvest
would fall short about thirteen million
bushelA
Born the breweries ut Sioux City, Ia,
closed their doors on the 7th, and announced
that In view Of tho decision Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States they would man.
ufacture no more beer
II has been decided to locate tho Pacific
branch OF the National Home for Disabled
U~1~~ >NA A.